The Professional Liaison Program is designed to allow spouses of internationals to address questions about their career with other professionals in their field either through CCIS professional contacts or through weekly group discussions with other internationals including invited speakers in diverse professional fields.

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For Internationals

To help you decide whether PLP is right for you, we have incorporated a few examples of how the PLP allowed the participants to either advance in their career or to make a change to another career of more interest to them.
Examples of recent PLP success will give you an idea of how the program has helped other applicants.

Our community contacts are volunteers who donate time to share their professional experience with international visitors. If a personal one-on-one contact is desired, the PLP Coordinator will contact you to arrange a meeting first with you and then with the professonal contact person.

To participate in the one-on-one contact program

Applying for the Professional Liaison Program is easy. PLP applicants are accepted throughout the year.

Applicants must be proficient in English, be unable to work in the U.S. due to visa status, and have no existing local contacts in his/her professional field.

Fill in an online application Application for Professional Liaison Program or pick up a hard copy application at the Bechtel International Center upstairs reception desk. If available, a resume should be attached for the purpose of acquainting the local professional contact with your career background.

Return your completed PLP application to the upstairs reception desk at the Bechtel International or submit it online to: PLP@CCISstanfordU.org

To participate in the PLP weekly group discussion

Sign-up is not required. Friday morning discussions are held in the Back Lounge of the Bechtel International Center from 9:30am to 11:00am. The meeting dates for the PLP group discussions are the same as the Stanford academic schedule. Parents with children are invited to participate in the program.

Participants learn about the American culture, share their career and cultural experiences with other class members, and participate in individual and team presentations.

Becoming a professional contact is easy and generally involves meeting with an international applicant to answer questions the applicant might have about a profession.

To participate in the one-on-one contact program

Professional Liaison applicants from Internationals are accepted throughout the year, but the vast majority of students arrive mid-August to the end of September when classes begin.

The PLP Coordinator will review each completed PLP application and conduct an informal interview with the applicant to ascertain the level of English communication and meeting objectives. The coordinator will then search the list of CCIS volunteers who have offered to help with PLP for a professional contact in the applicant’s field of interest.

If you are the volunteer selected, the coordinator will contact you to establish the time frame and location most convenient for a meeting, after sharing some background about the applicant. At this point the coordinator will provide contact information to you and the applicant and ask you to set up a meeting. The coordinator will ask to be informed of the meeting, and will follow up with calls/e-mails to obtain feedback and to thank you for your time.